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Well, I talked to - first it was a counselor at a women’s prison, just to kinda get his take on what the COs were like and all that research, but no, for CO research I just watched "Locked Up" and all those nasty prison shows.
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So did you talk to any male prison guards at women’s penitentiaries at any point, or do any character prep in that vein? Yeah, the glue is not the most comfortable thing in the world. I can’t even imagine having that thing on my lip for an extended period of time. I can imagine it would be difficult, from the perspective of a non-mustache-haver, to eat lunch on set with that thing on, or even act with it at first. In the first episode, the one they had on was a little bit big and unwieldy and too thick. So they went through a couple permutations. I thought that the ’stache was – I was gonna go more for a handlebar thing, where it came all the way down, and Jenji had a very, very specific look in mind with just the big, bushy top lip. On the first day, we had some serious pornstache tests. Was there ever a point during shooting where you’d go, like, pornstache-shopping on set, to find one that was adequately pornstache-y? Or was there, one set pornstache from Day One? It was glued on every morning at work, and taken off when I was done. Is it real to you, EJ? Was the mustache real to you? If the mustache was real to you, then it was real. So first I have to ask you something probably you’ve been getting nonstop since the show premiered: Is it real? Is the mustache real? While Schreiber looks forward to getting back to the “good guy roles” (he’ll play one in the upcoming series "Ironside," which premieres on NBC this fall), for now he seems cool with being known as “the guy you love to hate.” Salon caught up with Schreiber to chat about prison reality shows, the rigors of prosthetic facial hair, and his "OITNB" character’s inexplicable sex appeal (well, maybe not that inexplicable). Since "Orange Is the New Black" premiered earlier this month, Schreiber has gotten his fair share of angry messages from fans (the fact that he preceded the role with another sociopath, murderer/rapist William Lewis in the season finale cliffhanger of "Law and Order: SVU," probably hasn’t helped matters). Despite his racist, misogynistic and all-around despicable behavior, Pornstache ultimately reveals himself, in one pivotal scene, as a guy who just wants someone to ask how his day’s going - and it’s Schreiber’s pitch-perfect performance that makes this transition from all-out villain to wounded antihero believable. Like the sadist that he is, Pornstache derives enormous satisfaction from inflicting pain on the prisoners yet as the season progresses, there’s something appealingly vulnerable, even likeable, about the character. Any semi-regular TV viewer probably knows Pablo Schreiber as “that tall, good-looking guy who played that guy in that thing once.” The physical amalgamation of Luke Wilson and Christian Bale (with a dash of half-brother Liev’s genes thrown in for good measure), Schreiber has been making the Broadway and cable TV circuit for years, earning raves for his turn as earnest dock worker Nick Sobotka in "The Wire," as well as his performance as Demetri “The Sarge” Ravitch in the seventh season of "Weeds." Since the premiere of the new Netflix series "Orange Is the New Black," however, Schreiber, who plays prison guard George “Pornstache” Mendez, has achieved a new level of (not always positive) recognition.Īs the pernicious Pornstache (so named for the character’s John Holmes-esque facial coiffure), Schreiber plays a bona fide sociopath who extorts, harasses and assaults the female inmates at every turn.